Happy New Year! While it may seem a
bit early to be talking about next year‘s (2019-2020) PTA Executive
Board, we want to ensure everyone is aware of the opportunities
available to each of you and the process involved.
PTA
Members: Any Parent with a child enrolled in PS205 is automatically a
PTA Member. PTA members are always welcome at monthly meetings and
encouraged to voice opinions and ask questions. Volunteering for school
events and the various committees, is always appreciated.
PTA
Executive Board Members: These are Parents that have been elected, by
the PTA Members, to executive positions to serve in leadership roles on
the board.
All
PTA Executive Board positions are held for one year only, starting July
1st and parents need to be nominated, run for the position and be voted
into the position. Parents who are currently on the Executive Board
are not guaranteed a spot on the Executive Board the following year
unless they run and are voted in again. The nomination letter goes out
in March, the deadline for nominations is the April PTA meeting and then
voting takes place during the May PTA meeting!
In the
2019-2020 school year, our current PTA President will be moving out of
the area and will not be running as PTA President. We would like to
invite any parent who is interested in running for any position on next
year’s Executive Board, including PTA President(s), Vice President(s),
Recording Secretary, Treasurer and Corresponding Secretary to contact
Amy Kaye at amymkaye@gmail.com to answer any questions about serving on
the Executive Board. We invite you to participate during this current
year to see what the duties entail for each position.
All PTA
members play an important role in our school community and we look
forward to new ideas and new people on the 2019-2020 Executive Board.
Thank you 2018-2019 PTA Executive Board Members
It is
time to open our engineering minds for the 2019 school year! We are proud to present the PS205 2nd
annual STEM Design and Engineering Challenge!
For those who may have not participated or do not remember, students
completed their grade specific project at home and came back to school the
night of the STEM Challenge to test their structures. It was an unbelievable
evening of science and engineering!
The 2nd
annual STEM Design and Engineering Challenge will take place Friday, March 8th,
2019 at 5:00pm in the cafeteria. Every student from kindergarten through fifth
grade will have the opportunity to participate in grade specific challenges.
Projects must be completed at home. This will not be taking place during class
time. Students will have the next few weeks
to design, engineer and then redesign their projects if necessary. Families are responsible for all
materials. All design projects were
chosen to keep cost of materials to a minimum.
The majority of materials for the projects will be everyday items found
around your home. I know you cannot wait to find out what the
design and engineering challenges are, so let me introduce to you the STEM
challenges for the grades:
2nd/3rd Grade: PAPER TABLE DESIGN AND ENGINEERING CHALLENGE
4th/5th Grade: ZIPLINE DESIGN AND ENGINEERING CHALLENGE
Please
read through the projects and encourage your child to take advantage of this
STEMtastic opportunity. Each student
that participates will receive an award.
Design and engineering awards will be given to those students whose
projects are able to succeed in their given challenge. Please detach the slip below and return to
Mr. B by Friday, February 1st, 2019.
Thank
you families for your support in building up our STEM program and helping to
create 21st century designers and engineers!
